This paleoclimatic time capsule is 1.5 million years old, making it the oldest continuous ice sample we have to date.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, explains how Russia’s dominance in the Arctic is pressuring the U.S. to develop its own fleet of icebreakers. With over half of the ...

Is the North Pole real? Does Santa have a workshop there? Facts about the North Pole, its location in the Arctic and its tie to Christmas lore.

Beyond its charming facade, North Pole offers visitors an authentic Alaskan winter experience. Local artisans craft intricate ice sculptures throughout the town, while the nearby Chena Lake ...

The next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith.

In 1897, three explorers set out to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon—but they never made it. Their disappearance became one of the great unresolved dramas of Arctic exploration.

Hanis is an artist and sculptor who has been working in Alaska for 22 years, and lives in the McCarthy area. He creates nature-inspired art using watercolors and carves wood, steel, snow and ice.

What does it take to coax travelers to head north in midwinter? Northern lights? Ice sculptures? Dog mushing? Walking with the reindeer? The community of Fairbanks leans in on these wild winter ...

Two cold seas off the coast of Alaska, nearly 3,000 miles from Michigan, appear to increasingly hold the key to how much the Great Lakes will ice over in winter, according to new research.

Rousing late-day thunderstorms are a staple of summer in the Lower 48 states, but not so much atop the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, a hundred miles from the nearest land mass. The National Weather ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Blame the Grinch or Mother Nature, but the annual Christmas in Ice sculpture park won't open this year in North Pole, Alaska, because of a lack of ice. It's the first ...